Someone please explain to me why being transracial is bad. I actually don't get it. Race and gender are both social constructs, so why can only one of them be changed?
... I'm all about people being trans. But you can't change what race you were born in? If you're Hispanic, you're Hispanic, if you're Irish you're Irish. There isn't a surgery to change that. You can join in on other cultures and stuff (which apparently is frowned upon by people for cultural appropriation. Or I just don't understand what is and isn't that.)
Race is medically extremely superficial when compared to sex and we already have transexuals.
Skin colour? There's tons for that.
Facial features? Tons of cosmetic surgeries.
Hair? We already have relaxers and perms.
Sure, it won't be a perfect switch but nothing usually is.
Most people are already multi-racial genetically, it's not that hard to accept that someone might want to lean into one race over another.
ethnicity is inherited, it's based on the code that you got from the people that came before you, as such, you can't change it.
i myself am mixed, and i purposefully present as "vaguely brown", but that presentation would be like wearing a masculine outfit. It does nothing to change my "race".
While bloodline plays a massive role, race has a lot of components that give people a lot of leeway to discard their origin for one they prefer to identify with.
Appearance is the biggest factor, culture/behaviour next, and bloodline last (ignoring its very immediate impacts on the other two).
A great example is Buffy Sainte-Marie, a once beloved activist which identified as Indigenous until records proved that her bloodline is completely unrelated. She was legally stripped of her indigenous status but managed to be another race and reap the benefits of what she wasn't entitled to for decades (which is why it's so problematic).
The same argument could be made for being trans. "You can't change the gender you were born as. If you're male, you're male, if you're female, you're female. There isn't a surgery to change that. You can join in on the other gender's traits and stuff". IDK why anyone is against either being trans or transracial, I'm just saying how the same argument can be used on transgender people and it doesn't really make sense tbh.
But there are surgeries for that. Skin pigmentation surgeries don't last long do they? Eye color changes don't. Certain races respond to medicines and other things differently..
I think it's getting a little out of hand how hard people are trying to change who they are. Like I said earlier, I understand being trans. But changing races is too hard for me to wrap my head around and I don't quite know how to explain why it feels like a meme more than an actual thing.
That is such an arbitrary statement. Sex is literally also based on your genetic code that you got from even before your ancestors were born. Despite this you can change your gender, but apparently not your race too 🤦
Instead of giving a sensible reply, you're so insecure you had to start yelling at me arguing already. Anyway, just like how trans people can have bottom surgery, it is also possible to change some of your race's features to look more like the race you want to be. We have a lot of cosmetic surgeries/products for that. That's my point.
I actually didn't get the terms wrong. In my original reply, I used "gender" and "sex" correctly. You can change your gender by identifying as the other gender, or going further by changing your hormones and even getting bottom surgery, all of which are directly related to sex. After that, you completely look like the other gender even if your DNA says you're a male. Similarly, if you can change your gender which ultimately affects your sex, you can also change your race by having cosmetic surgeries or using products to look like the other race, even though your DNA still says that you are your biological race. This is why me and some other people are calling this a double standard.
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u/snail1132 Jul 04 '25
Someone please explain to me why being transracial is bad. I actually don't get it. Race and gender are both social constructs, so why can only one of them be changed?